of Mr. Bradshaw.. The greater part of my life has been spent in the toils of the sea; but, those toils have become pleasures, when I reflected that they might tend to the security and the honour of this happy land, and to the preservation of those inestimable liberties, to exercise the most important of which, you, gentlemen, are this day assembled. To preserve these liberties unimpaired shall be the business and the pride of my life; and, gentlemen, AS A PLEDGE

THAT I WILL MAKE THESE EFFORTS PURELY FOR THE GOOD OF MY COUNTRY, I GIVE YOU MY WORD OF HONOUR, THAT I NEVER WILL ACCEPT OF ANY SINECURE OR PENSION, OR ANY GRANT OF THE PUBLIC MONEY, AND THAT I NEVER WILL ASK OR RECEIVE ANY SUCH FOR ANY PERSON WHATEVER, THAT MAY BE IN ANY WAY DEPENDENT UPON ME.

Mr. COBBETT.-Gentlemen; the Address which I have caused to be circulated amongst you contains so full an expression of the principles, upon which I stand here, that I shall not occupy much of your time, and keep you long in this burning san, with any addition to what you have read in that Address; thinking it necessary merely to repeat, in terms the most explicit, and with heart the most sincere, that I have, in this undertaking, never been, for one single moment, actuated by private interest or by personal ambition. I have not waited upon any of you, gentlemen, in the way of what is called canvassing; and this omission, Mr. Bradshaw has endeavoured to make you believe, has arisen from a want of respect towards you; upon which insinuation, coupled with his printed and published assertion, that I had railed at you," I must beg you to indulge ine with a few words. Gentlemen, it was because I did respect you, that I did not insult you with a mock familiarity, with hypocritical smiles, with cringing and with fawning; it was because I did respect you; it was because I sincerely regarded you as my countrymen; it was because I would shew the same face to-morrow that I shew you to-day; it was because I hated the thought of seeing you degraded below the character that I wish you all to sustain ;—these were the reasons that prevented me from attempting what is called a canvass And, as to railing at you,' gentlemen, what should induce me to rail at you? I did, it is true, leave the world room to fear, that a few, a very few, and possibly only one of you, would be found to sanction the great principie upon which I had ventured to stand. But, I did, at the same time, express my confident hope, that

you would, in very great numbers stand forth to sanction that principle; and, gen-, tlemen, as you do, not so stand forth, the fault, if any, is yours, not mine. If my principle be good, it is your fault for not sanctioning it; if it be good for nothing, it is no " railing," to say that you will not sanction it. But. who is the man, from whom proceeds this charge of railing at you? who is the man that has taken such unconi. mon pains, and that has resorted to such unmanly means, of exciting such a clamour as should drown my voice on this day, and thereby keep from your ears the dreaded. truths, which he knows must, first or last, here or elsewhere, produce effect? who is this man; and what has he said of you? has he never railed at you, gentlemen? has he always treated your name with respect? What I have said of you, I have said to your face; or, which is the same thing, I have subscribed my name to it, and I do now beg to be understood as repeating it every word. But he has chosen a very different course; and ashamed of myself should I be did he not. He, gentlemen, has said of you what I will now tell you; and while I tell it you, I beg you to believe, that I participate not in his contemptuous opinion of you, and that I deeply lament, that there should ever have been any foundation for his statements. Here, at Honiton, he calls you gentlemen; he has just now called you his kind friends; he has, as well as he could stammer it out, talked of the happiness and the honour of representing you; but, in London, gentlemen, he talks in a dif. ferent strain of you; there, gentlemen, in a message sent to me by Mr. Robson, he said, in order to dissuade me from attempt ing to oppose him, that nothing but money. would do at Honiton; that he had given you six guineas each for the last election, and was to give you two guineas each for this election, the truth of which I am ex ceedingly sorry to have heard confirmed since my arrival in this place; but, he has added, gentlemen, that he means to secure a seat by means of you for the next seven years, and that, then, you may go to the devil for him; besides which, he has recently said, even in the entrance to that very House of Commons, whereinto by your voice be was sent, that you were the most corrupt rascals in the world! This, gentlemen, is railing, indeed; and, if you, after this statement, for the truth of which I pledge my word, re-elect him, be the everlasting shame and dishonour upon your heads.-No, gentlemen, I have never railed at you. It is not in my nature to cast disgrace upon my

Countrymen; every feeling of my heart pleads against it, while no one feeling of his heart can be expected so to plead. I was born and bred amongst you; he was not: I have been a partaker in all your labours; he has never partaken either in your labours or your cares: I have property that must be affected by every thing that affects your property or your labour; and, I sincerely believe, that he has not a brick or a tile, or a foot of land of his own in the kingdom: there is every reason that can be imagined for me to sympathize in all your sufferings; while, from the very nature of his pursuits in life, it is his interest to augment and to perpetuate those sufferings. With this view of the subject it was, that I offered myself to you, after having, in vain, endeavoured to find some other independent man to give you an opportunity of rescuing yourselves from the hands of this Sinecure Placeman ; and, my principle, which I now repeat, was this; that, unless those who are invested with the power of returning members to parliament, will determine to return such only as will make a declaration to forego all profit, either to themselves or their family, arising out of the public money, the House of Commons will never be such as to support the measures which are now absolutely necessary to the preservation of our liberties and our independence.-Mr. Bradshaw bas, in justification of his acceptance of his sinecure place, told you, gentlemen, that it would give him great pain, if he thought that this addition to his fortune would add to the distress of his constituents; but that he would have you remember, that this place is not at all connected with the revenue of THIS part of the United Kingdom. This, for want of breath, 1 suppose, he has not told you here, but in a publication signed with his name; and, being fairly explained, his meaning is this: "I do prey upon some"body, I allow; yes, I do prey upon the people; but, it is not upon you; it is upon the people of another part of the kingdom; it is upon the Irish;" who, observe, are his own countrymen! But, if you were base enough not to be shocked at a sentiment so unnatural, you ought not to be left in the dark as to the state of the fact, which is, that this declaration, is a sheer deceit; a low and contemptible subterfuge; for, though I am perfectly willing to give Mr. Bradshaw credit for ignorance as profound as that of which any human being ever could boast, he must know, that, of the total amount of his sinecure salary, the people of England pay fifteen parts out of seventeen so that, if this salary amount to

3,400 pounds a year, we, the people of England, pay the 3,000, and the remaining 400 are wrung from the hard hands of his own countrymen, the Irish, whom, when he goes there, he will, perhaps, console by reminding them, that they pay only two se venteenths of his salary, and that the rest is paid by the English, and amongst others, by those whom he has called the " corrupt

rascals" of Honiton.-But, gentlemen, there is, for us as well as for his own' countrymen, one general consolation; namely; that he will, as he has told you, resign his place, whenever the keeping of it shall be inconsistent with his principles; and, he adds, by way of backing this promise, that the place, which he has now obtained, was held by his father and his grandfather. Now, gentlemen, this lasť might have been a very good argument to convince you that place-hunting ran in the blood of the family, and that he never would quit his hold until life quitted him; but, as an argument to convince yon, that he would make the tenure of the place depend upon the preservation of his principles, it is, surely, the very worst that ever was conceived even in a mind like his.-As to the sincerity of these promises, relative to the future, you have, however, pretty good means of judging in his assertions as to the past. He has told you, in his printed paper, that he did not vote for the BREWING TAX, and that you know his opinion about that tax. The tax, thanks to the ministers themselves and to other persons than Mr. Bradshaw, is, for the present, given up;' but, as to his assertion, it is, not to denominate it by a shorter and more harsh term, a most paltry subterfuge; for, gentlemen," the bill for imposing the tax could not be brought in without a vote of the House to give leave to bring it in; that vote was given after many members had spoken against it," and, observe me well, and let him contradict me if he can, he, upon that occasion, sat at the back of the minister, and there he gave his yote for the tax, even including the Exciseman part of the plan. He did not speak in favour of the tax: no, gentlemen, but, the whole of the parliamentary eloquence of this your representative is comprised in two short words; AYE and NO, aye for every proposition that tends to his profit, and no for every proposition that tends to the lightening of your burdens, or the preserving of your liberties. But, gentlemen, his inability to utter six coherent words at a time, must not excuse him on this occasion, because he has printed and published the equivocating assertions upon which I have

been remarking. Not, however, that I accuse him of writing these papers, and for this plain reason, because I know that he cannot, but, I do accuse him of having employed the pen of some JESUIT; and, [looking round towards the group at the back of Mr. Bradshaw] I beg you to believe, gentlemen, that there are Jesuits in the Protestant as well as in the Catholic church, But, as to opposing any measure of any minister, gentlemen, I hope you do not believe, that such a thing will ever be attempted by this sinecure placeman. He knows, gentlemen, he well knows, that he dares not, and that he never will dare to make such an attempt. When he tells you that he will resign his place, if the keeping of it should be inconsistent with his principles; he is speaking again from his Jesuitical prompter; for his sole principle, gentlemen, being to keep his place, there is, of course, nothing but the giving up of his place that can ever be inconsistent with his principle; and, gentlemen, as to resigning, when you see a Bradshaw voluntarily quit a place by the means of which he is able to prey upon the public, then expect to see the kites quit the tops of the trees and come and pick grain and cluck about your yards along with your hens and your chickens.Now, gentlemen, by way of conclusion, give me leave again' to remind you of the declaration with which I introduced myself to your notice, and in which I stated to you that my motive was not private interest or personal ambition, but an anxious desire to set an example of public-spirit and disinterestedness in those who should in future offer themselves for your suffrages; and, of the sincerityof this declaration, I shall, I hope, give you a convincing proof, when I now tell you, that, in consequence of the frank and specific declaration of the noble and gallant Officer who now stands before you, I am desirous of yielding to him whatever pretensions I may have had. Mr. Bradshaw, genflemen, with that sort of courage which, in such a man, is always inspired by numbers and by noise on his side, seems to triumph at what he deems my want of success; but, gentlemen, he does not look far enough; if he did he would see that I have succeeded; completely succeeded; I have succeeded in giving you an opportunity of choosing a man of principles directly the contrary of his; I have succeeded in making an election, for where there is but one candidate there is no choice; I have succeeded in bringing you here this day, gentlemen; and, what I shall always be proud of, I have succeeded in bringing Lord Cochrane to present him

self to you. If you reject him, the fault is not mine; and, if you still cling to Mr. Bradshaw, after what you now know, all that I can say is, much good may he do you!

Mr. BRADSHAW.-Gentlemen; all that I shall say in answer to what Mr. Cobbett has said about my railing at you, is, that I never sent any message to him in my life; that I never had any communication, and that I never will have any communication with him, or any of his associates; that the man, who has now accused me of abusing you, is a convicted libeller; that I'myself was in the court of justice and saw him convicted; that he has now told you that he brought Lord Cochrane here, though the noble Lord says that he came of his own accord. And this, gentlemen, is every word I shall say in an swer to the long and fine speech of the great Mr. Cobbett.'

MR. COBBETT.-Gentlemen, there are many persons here who insist that I shall not reply to Mr. Bradshaw, because I do not mean to call for any poll in my behalf; but, gentlemen, if you wish to get out of the heat of the sun I recommend you to give me a hearing; for reply I will, before we part. [Order was restored]-As to the bringing of Lord Cochrane here, gentlemen, I appeal to you, whether my words imported any thing more, than that I had trought him here in the same way that I had, brought you here, that is to say, by the making of a stand, and by the promulgating of my address to you, which his lordship read at Plymouth-As to my character, gentlemen, a convicted libeller Mr. Bradshaw had denominated me in one of his printed papers, and to that denomination he owes the well-merited chastisement under which you have just seen him writhing; but, gentlemen, what must you think of the candour and of the "high birth," of which this gentleman has, in print, boasted to you; when you are told, that the ministers who have given this man his place, have given a pension (I do not say improperly) to the writer of the libel he alludes to; when you are told that one of those ministers, his benefactors, and that, too, one of the most distinguished and most honourable of men, has, in open parliament described me as meriting a statue of gold, for services rendered to my country All this Mr. Bradshaw knows very well; he knows, gentlemen, that I am an honourable and an incorruptible man; he knows that my cha racter, both public and private, is without spot or blemish; he knows that I am nɑ Swindling Gambler, no Treacherous Friend, no Convicted Adulterer: all this he well